Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have never loved money for its own sake. ... I have tried to make money that it might be an instrument of service...
...Rita had a soul of "spiritual perfectness." To amuse Rita, Jason brings a trained seal from the nearby carnival. The seal's owner comes, too-Zarna, Diving Venus of the show. Zarna would like to live at Jason's farm, not only for her own sake but for the seal's. That is why she accepts Jason when he proposes marriage. Later she refuses to bear a baby, and saves Jason from drowning. Both these things tend to alienate Jason. They make him think she is not a womanly woman. He is further perturbed when, during...
Which one of the following would you be willing to sacrifice for the sake of being successful: happiness, comfort, reputation, pride, honor, health, money, love...
Opposed though he is to group practice, for the sake of lowering costs to poor patients Dr. Harris recommended that doctors organize and incorporate pay clinics in their counties. Patients would pay fees according to their economic status. For charity cases the community would pay flat fees agreed to by public officials and the doctors. The doctors would split the profits of the clinic among themselves, as its stockholders...
...times' sake, and because such victories as were hers were more bitterly earned, Mrs. May Sutton Bundy more than Helen Wills was Wimbledon's idol last week. She, before the enthusiastic eyes of William Tatem Tilden II (who murmured, "It's too good to be true") and to the anguished exhortations of her nine-year-old daughter (the youngest of four), defeated England's hard-hitting Eileen Bennett 3-6, 6-4, 6-4. British newspapers reprinted oldtime photographs taken when Mrs. Bundy, then May Sutton, became Wimbledon's first U. S. champion...